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Managed Cold Email Outreach

Cold Email That Actually Lands.
And Actually Gets Replies.

Most cold email fails before the prospect even opens it. The problem is not your offer; it is your infrastructure. DeliMail fixes the foundation: multi-inbox setup, domain warm-up, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, AI personalisation, and deliverability monitoring, all managed for you.

$199

Per month, per tool

2.7 times

More likely to reach the inbox with SPF, DKIM and DMARC (Saleshandy)

4–6 wk

Domain warm-up before full sending volume

The Problem

Why Most Cold Email Fails Before It Even Starts

The number one reason cold email does not work is not bad copy. It is infrastructure. Emails that land in spam never get read, no matter how good they are.

The Deligatr gator sending an email: cold email outreach infrastructure by DeliMail

Reality check

In Saleshandy’s analysis of 53.1 million cold emails, fully authenticated domains were 2.7 times more likely to land in the inbox than unauthenticated ones.

Sending from your main domain

Why it kills your campaign: One spam complaint can blacklist your primary business email, the same one your clients and prospects use to reach you. Never send cold outreach from your main domain.

DeliMail fix: DeliMail uses dedicated sending domains, separate from your main email, which absorb all campaign risk.

No domain warm-up

Why it kills your campaign: A brand new email domain sending hundreds of emails per day looks exactly like spam to Google and Microsoft. Their filters will route you to junk before your first prospect even sees the subject line.

DeliMail fix: DeliMail warms every new domain for four to six weeks before campaign volume starts, building sender reputation gradually.

Missing SPF, DKIM & DMARC

Why it kills your campaign: These three DNS records tell email providers that you are authorised to send from your domain. Without them, your emails fail authentication checks and land in spam, or get rejected entirely.

DeliMail fix: DeliMail configures SPF, DKIM, and DMARC on every sending domain as part of setup. No technical knowledge required.

Sending too much from one inbox

Why it kills your campaign: Google Workspace allows up to 2,000 messages per user per day, but that is a platform ceiling, not a safe target for cold email. Senders who push thousands of emails through a single address build a poor reputation quickly and wonder why nothing lands.

DeliMail fix: DeliMail spreads send volume across multiple inboxes on multiple domains and ramps slowly, keeping every mailbox far below the platform ceiling.

Running Several Campaigns at Once

Teams that run outreach for several offers, regions or clients face a unique challenge: each campaign targets a different audience with different messaging. A single self-serve tool like Smartlead or Instantly can handle this technically, but the operational overhead of managing multiple campaigns, multiple domain sets, and multiple warm-up schedules is enormous. DeliMail as a managed cold email service handles all of this operationally, giving you the outreach without the operational load.

Cold Email for Referral-Led Businesses

Established businesses and professional-services firms are rarely natural cold emailers. You built your business on referrals and relationships, and that is fine. But referrals dry up, and the feast-and-famine cycle is real. Cold email outreach, done correctly with the right infrastructure and targeting, gives you a steady pipeline channel that works in parallel with referrals, without you becoming a full-time marketer to maintain it. See how it works for your industry.

Features

The Infrastructure Behind Every Campaign

DeliMail is not just a sending tool. It is a complete managed cold email infrastructure, built so your campaigns land in inboxes and generate replies.

DeliMail multi-inbox cold email infrastructure
Core Infrastructure

Multi-Inbox, Multi-Domain Architecture

DeliMail sets up multiple sending domains and multiple inboxes per domain, spreading your send volume so no single address or domain ever carries too much load. This is one of the most important factors in cold email deliverability, and it is completely handled for you.

Multiple sending domainsInbox rotationVolume throttlingReputation monitoring

Domain Warm-Up

Every new sending domain goes through a four to six week automated warm-up process, gradually increasing send volume to build a positive sender reputation before campaigns begin.

Skipping warm-up is a common cause of cold email landing in spam. DeliMail never skips it.

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AI Personalisation

Emails That Feel Written for That Prospect

DeliMail's AI writes custom opening lines for each contact, referencing their company, role, and recent activity. Not mail merge. Genuine personalisation at scale.

Smart Follow-Up Sequences

A single email is rarely enough. DeliMail automates personalised follow-up sequences that adjust based on whether the prospect has replied. Persistence without being annoying.

Deliverability Dashboard & A/B Testing

Track reply rates, bounce rates, meetings booked, and inbox placement across every campaign. Open rates are unreliable because Apple Mail Privacy Protection inflates them, so we optimise for replies. Run A/B tests on subject lines, opening lines, and CTAs, all visible in one dashboard.

Inbox Placement: Authenticated vs Unauthenticated

Saleshandy, analysis of 53.1 million cold emails, January to June 2026

2.7 times

more likely to land in the inbox for fully authenticated domains (SPF, DKIM and DMARC together) than unauthenticated ones.

Cold Email Reply Rates: Two Published Figures

Replies divided by emails sent. Not like for like: different populations. Bars drawn on a 0 to 5% scale.

Belkins, 7.5 million emails (2025)0.45%
Instantly, platform average (its own users, self-selected)3.43%
Comparison

DeliMail vs Smartlead vs Instantly

Smartlead and Instantly are excellent self-serve tools, if you have the time, knowledge, and operational capacity to run them. DeliMail is the managed alternative for businesses that want the results without the overhead.

Feature
DeliMail
Smartlead
Instantly
Setup & configuration
Done for you
DIY
DIY
Domain warm-up
Managed by team
Self-managed
Self-managed
Copy & sequences
Written for you
You write it
You write it
AI personalisation
Included, managed
Available, self-run
Available, self-run
Deliverability monitoring
Ongoing by team
You monitor
You monitor
CRM sync (DeliHub or your own CRM)
Native, automatic
Integration required
Integration required
Your time
Approvals and replies
Setup, copy, monitoring and replies
Setup, copy, monitoring and replies
Who it is built for
Established B2B businesses
Technical marketers
Technical marketers

The key difference

Same Infrastructure. Zero Operational Overhead.

Smartlead and Instantly use the same underlying email infrastructure principles as DeliMail. The difference is not the technology, it is who operates it. DeliMail is a done-for-you cold email service. You get the same kind of infrastructure, without the setup, warm-up, copywriting, monitoring and reply handling landing on you.

Who It Is For

Who Is DeliMail Built For?

DeliMail is built for established B2B businesses and professional-services firms across industries that need a steady pipeline channel, without becoming cold email experts to get one.

Deligatr managed cold email service for B2B
done for you cold email outreach

Your Outreach. Fully Managed.

You focus on closing meetings. We handle everything else, infrastructure, copy, warm-up, sequences, and deliverability.

cold email software for B2B

Teams Running Several Campaigns

Run managed cold email campaigns for several offers or clients simultaneously, each with their own domain infrastructure, sequences, and targeting. DeliMail scales across your portfolio without multiplying your operational workload. The managed service model means your team stays focused on strategy, not inbox management.

cold email outreach for B2B

Referral-Led Businesses

Your business grew on referrals. DeliMail adds a second engine running in the background, targeting decision-makers in your ideal client profile, warming them up over a sequence of personalised emails, and booking calls directly into your diary. You see the meeting. We handled everything before it.

email outreach tool for professional services

Relationship-Led Sales

High-value services are a relationship business, but relationships need a starting point. DeliMail creates those starting points at scale, reaching CFOs, CEOs, and department heads with messages that feel like they were written by a peer, not blasted by a marketing tool.

signal-based cold email

Signal-Led Outreach

DeliMail is one of the channels that acts on signals: first-party signals from DeliChat, and trigger signals such as role changes, funding rounds and hiring found in research. Opens, clicks and replies feed the same score. See signal-based outbound.

Scale & Volume

Volume That Grows With Your Reputation

DeliMail is $199 a month. Sending volume is set by what your domains can safely carry, not by a plan.

Spread the load

Send volume is split across multiple sending domains and multiple inboxes, so no single address or domain carries too much.

Ramp slowly

New mailboxes start at roughly 5 to 10 emails a day in weeks one and two and reach 20 to 30 a day in weeks three and four.

Stay far below the ceiling

Google Workspace allows up to 2,000 messages per user per day. Cold senders keep each mailbox well below that and let volume grow with reputation.

How a DeliMail Campaign Goes Live

01
Week 1

ICP & Targeting

We work with you to define your ideal client profile, industry, company size, geography, job title, and buying signals. This is the foundation everything else is built on.

02
Weeks 1–6

Domain Setup & Warm-Up

New sending domains are purchased, configured with SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and put through a four to six week automated warm-up process. This runs in parallel with copy development.

03
Week 2

Copy & Sequence Development

Our team writes your outreach sequence, opening email plus 2–3 follow-ups, with AI-personalised opening lines for each prospect. All copy is reviewed and approved by you before launch.

04
Weeks 4–6

Campaign Launch

Once domains are warmed and copy is approved, campaigns reach full volume. Send volume ramps gradually to maintain deliverability, and first meetings typically arrive in weeks four to six.

05
Ongoing

Optimisation & Reporting

Weekly performance reporting on reply rates, bounces, and meetings booked. A/B tests run continuously. Sequences are refined based on what is working. Deliverability is monitored daily.

Pricing

Simple, Published Pricing

DeliMail is $199 a month on its own, or $499 a month together with DeliChat and DeliReach. Managed Outbound is $2,500 a month on monthly billing, or less with quarterly and annual billing. Full detail is on our pricing page.

DeliMail covers domain setup, warm-up, campaign management, copy development, deliverability monitoring, and weekly reporting. No long-term contracts on monthly billing.

Email is one channel in our managed Outbound package, which is the same service as our outsourced SDR. See B2B lead generation services for how signal-based outbound works.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about DeliMail and cold email deliverability.

Will my emails land in spam?
This is the number one concern with cold email, and the right one to have. DeliMail is built around deliverability. Every new sending domain is warmed up for four to six weeks before campaign volume starts. SPF, DKIM and DMARC records are configured correctly on every domain. Inboxes are spread across multiple domains so no single domain carries the full send volume. For context, in Saleshandy’s analysis of 53.1 million cold emails (January to June 2026), fully authenticated domains (SPF, DKIM and DMARC together) were 2.7 times more likely to land in the inbox than unauthenticated ones.
How many emails can I send per day?
DeliMail is $199 a month (see our pricing page for full detail). Daily volumes are managed automatically. Google Workspace allows up to 2,000 messages per user per day, but cold senders keep each mailbox far below that ceiling and ramp slowly: roughly 5 to 10 a day in the first two weeks and 20 to 30 a day in weeks three and four. DeliMail throttles send rates across inboxes to stay within those safe limits.
What's the difference between DeliMail and just using Gmail?
Gmail is built for everyday email, not cold outreach. Google publishes a sending limit of 2,000 messages per user per day on Workspace, but staying under the ceiling is not the same as landing in the inbox. A standard mailbox has no warm-up process, no multi-domain infrastructure, no deliverability monitoring and no automated follow-up sequences. Sending cold outreach from your main mailbox puts your primary business email at risk. DeliMail uses dedicated sending infrastructure built specifically for outreach, keeping your primary business email clean.
Is DeliMail a Smartlead or Instantly alternative?
Yes, and the key difference is management. Smartlead and Instantly are self-serve tools: you buy the subscription, set up the domains, write the copy, manage the sequences and monitor deliverability yourself. DeliMail is a managed service: the Deligatr team handles that for you. Same kind of infrastructure, none of the operational overhead.
How long does it take before campaigns go live?
Setup takes about a week: an ICP workshop, infrastructure build, and copy written and approved. New sending domains then warm up for four to six weeks, so first meetings typically arrive in weeks four to six. Skipping warm-up is a common cause of cold email landing in spam, so we do not skip it. Deligatr starts the domain warm-up during onboarding, so it runs while your ICP and copy are finalised, and sending volume then ramps gradually over the four to six weeks.
Does DeliMail sync with my CRM?
Yes. DeliMail syncs directly with DeliHub, the Deligatr native CRM. Prospect responses, reply data, and contact records all flow into your pipeline automatically. It also syncs with whatever CRM you already use, at no extra cost.
Can DeliMail personalise emails automatically?
Yes. DeliMail's AI personalisation engine drafts custom opening lines, company-specific references, and role-appropriate messaging for each prospect at scale. This is not mail merge. Specific, accurate references matter more than volume of personalisation. LinkedIn data points the same way: Expandi's analysis of 13.2 million LinkedIn connection requests found AI hyperpersonalisation lowered acceptance by 12%, while specific real references ran 1.8 to 2.7 times the 30.2% baseline. We aim for the specific kind.
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